Now that Copenhagen the city “has turned Barack Obama into a double loser (Olympics & Climate lunacy),” Lubos Motl reckons you may want to see Copenhagen the play: a 125 minute piece of theatre exploring a major moment in the lives of two of the twentieth-century’s top physicist: Niels Bohr’s visit to Werner Heisenberg in 1941.Copenhagen (the play)

As revealed in the ClimateGate emails, the chap reviled more than any other by the IPCC’s scientists features in this 45-minute Fox News Special.Global Warming, or a Lot of Hot Air

“Global warming may be a problem, but it's not a certain problem, and it's certainly not one of epic proportions, as Al Gore would have us believe. It is one environmental concern among many, whose science is far from settled."- Lawrence Solomon, quoted in ‘Copenhagen another costly UN failure?’

You know how the Artic sea ice is supposed to be disappearing? Check out this day-by-day time lapse movie of Arctic sea ice from 1979 to 2009 and see for yourself. As Rand used to say, don’t just trust, know at first hand.

“Art works best when it celebrates the godlike in us: and this is just what so many contemporary artists fail to do.”The human, above all

“Far from achieving a major step forward, Copenhagen—predictably—achieved precisely nothing. . . The reasons for the complete and utter failure of Copenhagen are both fundamental and irresolvable. The first is that the economic cost of decarbonizing the world's economies is massive, and of at least the same order of magnitude as any benefits it may conceivably bring in terms of a cooler world in the next century. . . “The time has come to abandon the Kyoto-style folly that reached its apotheosis in Copenhagen last week, and move to plan B. And the outlines of a credible plan B are clear. First and foremost, we must do what mankind has always done, and adapt to whatever changes in temperature may in the future arise.”- Nigel Lawson: ‘Time for a Climate Change Plan B’

James Cameron’s film 'Avatar' makes film history, says Andrew Bolt. It’s the first mass-market movie about war between aliens and humans in which we’re meant to barrack for the aliens. The perfect misanthrope’s film.http://bit.ly/4tJY4u

ECONOMICS: And Frank Shostak schools Ben Bernankem who thinks the American economy is “recovering.” Explains Mr Shostak: “The so-called economic recovery in terms of GDP is likely to continue for another six months on account of massive monetary pumping. This, however, will continue to undermine the economy's ability to generate real wealth and hence a sustained economic recovery.”Correction, Mr. Bernanke

Check out this video tour of the latest exhibition at Michael Newberry’s gallery, ‘Landscape with a Modern Edge’:

The overpopulation bogie has now infected the Financial Post.http://bit.ly/6KfJ8c "Whole world needs to adopt China's one-child policy." Yikes

Greenpeace Leader admits claims about Greenland ice sheet melting were propaganda! If you have to lie to make your point . . .http://bit.ly/4rR2pw

What (so far) is the most destructive and harmful law ever enacted by a United States President? Briggs Armstrong argues it was the Federal Reserve Act, signed into law by Woodrow Bloody Wilson in 1913. Sad Day in History

Thanks for reading. Have a salacious Saturnalia ! And watch out, there are cougars about [hat tip Cactus Kate] :-)

Thanks for the link Peter. As an irrelevant point of interest, that bank vs IRD thread got me to No. 1 commenter on Hickey's site :) I suspect a hearty little band of Libertarians made it over there from here.